Lloyd Library and Museum

Happy Earth Day!

Here are some images from Traité de Botanique Générale (1850-1890) by Francois Herincq, Frederic Gerard & Oscar Reveil
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Lloyd Library & Museum curators and librarians Erin Campbell and Patrick Ford sit down with Carol Mundy, a longtime friend of the Lloyd and host of the podcast Outdoor Life, to discuss our current exhibition, The Botany of Beverages. Listen here:

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The Ginger Ale Connection: John Uri Lloyd and the Flavor of Canada Dry

This Friday, March 13, we’re raising a glass to an unexpected piece of Lloyd Library & Museum history in honor of National Ginger Ale Day.

It turns out that one of the Lloyd Library & Museum founders, John Uri Lloyd, was not only a pioneering pharmacist and pharmaceutical innovator—he also helped shape the flavor of one of the world’s most recognizable ginger ales. Through his research into botanical extraction, Lloyd designed and patented an apparatus that could capture delicate plant essences more effectively than earlier methods.

Why does that matter for ginger ale? Extracting the subtle aromatic compounds from ginger is notoriously tricky. Lloyd’s apparatus made it possible to obtain these fragile flavors more reliably, helping to refine the crisp ginger profile associated with the beloved brand, Canada Dry.

This advertisement highlights this connection and illustrates how Lloyd’s innovations in botanical chemistry reached far beyond the pharmacy and into everyday pleasures, like a refreshing glass of ginger ale.

Celebrate National Ginger Ale Day with a toast to pharmacy, botany, and Cincinnati ingenuity!

mistletoe (Viscum album)

Flora Parisiensis (1776-1780) by Pierre Bulliard

Bilder ur Nordens Flora (1922) by C.A.M. Lindman

Medizinal-Pflanzen in Naturgetreuen Abbildungen mit Kurz Erläuterndem Texte (1887) by Franz Eugen Kohler

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Pointsettias!
Curtis’s Botanical Magazine a.k.a. The Botanical Magazine; or Flower-Garden (1836)

The Botanist : containing accurately coloured figures of tender and hardy ornamental plants with descriptions, scientific and popular, intended to convey both moral and intellectual gratification (1838) by Benjamin Maund

The Garden: an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches (1876)

The Floral Cabinet and Magazine of Exotic Botany (1837)

Familiar Indian Flowers (1878) by Lena Lowis

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Christmas fern

The Ferns of North America (1879-1880) by Daniel Cady Eaton; the drawings by J.H. Emerton and C.E. Faxon

Ferns of Kentucky (1878) by John Willamson

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Our Winter Birds (1918) by Frank M. Chapman